Plunging to Leviathan?: Exploring the World's Political Future / Edition 1

by Robert Bates Graber

Overview

"With his accustomed skill and ingenuity, Graber makes a case for the future unification of the world without the necessity of global war." Robert Carneiro, American Museum of Natural History Can we predict the world's political future? The surprising wealth of research critiqued in this book suggests that earlier assessments of world trends pointed too pessimistically toward the likelihood of a future repressive world-state. Offering an impressive analysis of long-term historical patterns, population, and social changes, Graber presents a fresh look at current trends.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781594511561
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/31/2005
Series:	Studies in Comparative Social Science
Pages:	146
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Authored by Graber, Robert Bates

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Leviathan’s Embryo; Chapter 2 Plunging to Leviathan; Chapter 3 Century of Levitation?; Chapter 4 Prime Mover; Chapter 5 A Theory; Chapter 6 The Trillion-Soul Solution; Chapter 7 Pretty Puzzle; Chapter 8 Conquest’s End; Chapter 9 Comic Opera?; Chapter 10 Counting Coup; Chapter 11 Soft Landing; Chapter 12 Or Leviathan After All?;

Editorial Reviews

"Making it fun (and even exciting), Robert Graber pursues here a very serious issue—the coming of a world'state—and gives opposing sides of this debate fair and frequent airings. With his accustomed mathematical skill and ingenuity, he makes a case for the future unification of the world without the necessity of global war. Even the skeptics—and I'm one—hope he's right."
Robert Carneiro, American Museum of Natural History

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